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• It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry---he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry.
  The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel....
• Lord, the battle station plans are not aboard this ship!
• Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system. -- Napoleo
• Even Napoleon had his Watergate
• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance.
  This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men....
• Napoleon sat here and blew his Bonaparte.
• To a dog his owner is Napoleon; hence their popularity.
• In short, a German spy is giving way every one of our battle plans.
  You look surprised, Blackadder. I cerainly am, sir....
• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims" 1804-1815...